Scarf-fastener



(Model.)

B. H. FOOTE.

SGARF PASTENBB. No. 246,118. Patented'Au'g. 23,1881.

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EDWARD H. FOOTE, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

SCARF-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 246,113, dated August 23, 1881.

Application filed June 27, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD H. FOOTE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Somerville, in the county of MiddleseX and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Device for Scarf-Fasteners, of which the following is a full and complete description and specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a method of attaching flat or long scarfs to the collar when the latter is in position upon the neck, which shall do away with the inconvenience of using neckbands or elastics. To this end I make use of the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figures 1 and 2 are elevations of the under side of a scarf having my device attached, Fig. 1 showing the position of the device before, and Fig. 2 the position after, the scarf has been attached to the collar. Fig. 3 shows a side elevation of the device as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Figs. 4 and 5 show respectively front and side elevations of the device with a varied form of spring; and Figs. 1 and 2, 6, and 7 show my methods of attaching the device to the scarf.

Similarletters refer to similar parts th roughout the drawings.

In Figs. 1 and 2, M M N represent the under or back side of a common flat scarf, M M being the cloth covered card-board form, to which the other portions of the scarf are attached.

A represents a loop, formed of wire of suitable size and quality, and having a contraction, B, at its upper portion.

0 0 represent straight parallel continuations of the same wire, which are brought together at L, and from there twisted together, carried on, and bent to form the spring-loop D, which is still further bent and carried upward a suitable distance, as shown in Fig. 3. It is then bent at right angles with the wires 0 O and toward the scarf, and sharpened to form the point E; or, instead of being brought together and twisted, as above described, the wires may be passed through holes in a piece of sheet metal formed and bent as shown at (ModeL) D E, Figs. 4 and 5, and soldered to the same, as shown at H, Fig. 5, the object being in either case to so connect together the wires 0 (l and point E by a spring, D, that the latter shall tend to press the point E into the cloth covering of the card-board M M when the device is attached to the scarf.

The device as thus formed may be attached to the scarf in various ways but the two methods of attachment that I consider the best are shown respectively in Figs. 1 and 2 and 6 and 7. In the first method the wires (J G are passed for a suitable distance underneath the cloth covering of the card form M M, as shown at F F, Figs. 1 and 2. This would probably necessitate the completion of the device after attachment to the scarf. In the second method (shown in Figs. 6 and 7, Fig. 6 being an elevation of the side of the form M M, to which the device'is attached, and Fig. 7 an elevation of the opposite side) holes are made in the covered form M M before the attachment to it of the other parts of the scarf, and a small wire is passed through these holes from behind and over the wires 0 O, as shown at O 0 O 0, Fig. 6, and P P P P, Fig. 7, the ends of said wire being twisted together, as shown at T, Fig. 7.

The operation of the device can readily be perceived. from the foregoing description, and is as follows: When a scarf having this device attached is to be fastened to the collar 2. pressure of the thumb and fingers upon the spring D will disengage the point E from the cloth covering of the form M M, and the device can be pushed up, the wires 0 Osliding in their fastenings until the loop A is above the scarf, as shown in Fig. 1, and can easily be hooked over the collar-button, the contraction B fitting the neck of the button and preventing movement froin side to side. The

scarf is then pushed up into place, sliding on the wires 0 O, and the spring D, being released, forces the point E again into the cloth, and the scarf is held firmly in position upon the neck and bosom. The relative positions of scarf and fastener are then as shown in Fig. 2.

To detach the scarf, press the spring D, pull ing of a 100p A, contracted at B, straight pardown the scarf, and nnhook the loop A from I allel sliding connectors O 0, spring D, and I0 the collar-button. point E, all substantially as shown and de- Having thus described my invention, what scribed. 5 I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- EDVARD H. FOOTE.

cut, is--- Witnesses:

A scarf-fastener formed of wire, or of a GEO. I. VINCENT,

combination of wire and sheet metal, consist- SARAH A. MILES. 

